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NCLEX Nutrition

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1. What color vegetables are to be consumed more of?






2. What vitamin can helps with blood clotting?






3. What foods are needed for pellegra - dermatitis - diarrhea - and dementia?






4. What foods are good if patient. is vitamin A defecient and/or suffer from night blindness or xeropthalmia?






5. What does basal metabolic rate BMR calculate?






6. How much fruit is to be eaten/day?






7. Concentrated sources of energy poviding 9 calories/gram






8. What foods are good sources of carbohydrates?






9. Protein stores show short term changes of which lab value






10. What foods are needed for this deficiency of nutritional anemia - or neural tube defects?






11. What problem may occur if vitamin K deficient?






12. What is the recording tool for all foods/beverages consumed in last 24 hours includes time - location - portion?






13. How much meat/beans should be eaten?






14. If fat intake is insufficient then expect these medical problems






15. If protein stores become depleted which can neagatively affect immune system of which lab value






16. Name six sources of grains






17. If patient. has beriberi - or wernicke korsakoff syndrome what type of foods would be needed?






18. How much milk is to be consumed per day?






19. How much more calories are needed for lactation?






20. Sources of fats






21. How much more calories are needed for pregnancy?






22. What function is vitamin D?






23. Promote normal metabolism - and prevent this nutrient from being used for energy






24. If a patient. was riboflavin B2 deficient what foods are good sources of B2?






25. How much vegetables are to be eaten per day?






26. How many calories/gram is protein?






27. Insufficient intake of carbohydrate results in these two nutrients being used as energy






28. What is the function of vitamin E?






29. Waist circumference correlates apple versus pear body type and reflects risk pattern for disease






30. What is RDA of protein?






31. What foods are carbohydrates and provide energy?






32. What clinical administration is used and checked by albumin - prealbumin - and transferrin and overall nutrtion?






33. Where can you find good sources of vitamin E?






34. What does DASH stand for?






35. When does BMR increase?






36. What water soluble vitamins are easily excreted from body?






37. The higher the BMR a client has --






38. Good overall indicator of nutritional status becaUse of long half life and maintain until malnutrtion occurs






39. What type of albumin levels will show malnutrtion?






40. These nutrients required for proper growth - development - body repair - fluid and electrolyte balance - produce enzymes - hormones and antibodies






41. Where can you get more vitamin D?






42. What orange vegetables are good to eat?






43. What is normal BMI?






44. What type of patients are to utilize nutritional screening initiatives NSI?






45. If patient. is deficient with this vitamin - what foods will help scurvy or bleeding gums?






46. What is the function of vitamin C?






47. What function is vitamin A?






48. What milk products are avoided in the pyramid and not a good supply of calcium?






49. What is normal albumin levels?






50. What blood levels are checked for decrease in iron?